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Police allowed this to happen.
They were told to not engage the rioters.
Fire hoses would have ended it in minutes.
I really don't know what to make of all this. The riots seem anything but spontaneous, and the minimal involvement of police when people were destroying icons of the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr like starbucks and banks causes one to hesitate in identifying the leftist powers as the primary puppet masters here.
If Milo is a plant whose object is to subvert the alt-right by legitimizing fαɢɢօtry, who benefits by transforming him into a victim? The popular view would conflate Milo with the alt-right, so an attack on Milo=an attack on the alt-right. And the alt-right as victims doesn't at all align with the leftist media agenda.
If Milo is "legit" (i.e., he's "just" a gαy Jєω Catholic who really is committed against feminism, abortion, etc.-- which is difficult to believe) then the riots appear to take on a more "organic" form and maybe it really was just a bunch of burnt cupcakes throwing a fit and looking to start a war. But someone told the police not to interfere. And I suspect that someone organized (read: paid) people wearing all black and covering their faces to start beating people and burning things down. Soros? Seems that if he's behind it, he's admitting he lost. He's always been committed to deceptive tactics and psy-ops. Hiring leftists to commit public mayhem as leftists doesn't seem to align with goals or his M.O.
And then there's the media, who are barely covering it (e.g., "groundhog day" and Gorsuch's "fascism forever" club are trending on twitter over the riots, which are referred to as, at best, "violent protests" by CNN et al.) which tells me that they either a) haven't gotten their marching orders yet b) have gotten conflicting marching orders or c) their marching orders are to ignore it and report it gently without commentary. If C, then the idea that this was organized in order to make the right look bad don't really hold up to scrutiny.
Again, I don't know what to make of all of it. Hopefully more info will come with time.